N-600 Forms and procedure

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I tried searching uscis.gov for N600 form & procedure, could not find the form, the link to the form is broken. Do we have ability to save details in the form like we did for N400?
Can some one share the procedure & link to uscis for application for minor?
How much are the current fees?
Thanks in advance.
 
Here's the link to it

all the information you need is there...except if you have specific questions about it. I'm in the process of filing N-600 right now and have ran into some road blocks.
 
DJA said:
Here's the link to it

all the information you need is there...except if you have specific questions about it. I'm in the process of filing N-600 right now and have ran into some road blocks.
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Thanks a lot for the info. May I know how much total time does N600 take? They mentioned 3 photos on one page & 2 photos somewhere else, How many did you send?
 
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To be on the safe side I sent 3 photos. Time varies depending on your local office. You might want to check the processing times at the uscis website.
 
more questions

I would like to know what documents we need to send with the App & if copies are ok?
When do we have to send my daughters original GC to USCIS?

I could gather following:
Birth cert
Marriage Cert
Naturalization Cert for both parents.

Do we need to send lease? Any other docs?
 
As a side note, it is a complete waste of time and money to apply for a certificate of citizenship for your child. If your child has a US passport, that alone is enough proof of US citizenship. If you lose the child's passport you can get a new one simply by using parent's naturalization certificate+child's green card. If you want an alternate proof of citizenship you should obtain a passport card which costs $35 and is mush easier to obtain.
 
I wouldn't say a complete waste of time and money. It's just another proof of citizenship and it creates a record of your child citizenship with USCIS that might come handy when your kid gets picked up close the the US border and deported for not having proof of citizenship on her or him ;) I agree that nowadays with the passport card/passport book you can use one of them to obtain the other in case one is lost. One could keep the passport card in a safety box and that should be pretty safe.

I am not sure whether the passport agency would issue a passport if the Green Card document expires. Perhaps they do. I don't know.

Bottom line, from a practical point of view nkm-oct23 is right, in particular with the passport book/passport card backing up each other in case of loss. However, I think the certificate of citizenship has some other advantages. No expiry date. Record of citizenship at USCIS.
 
How do we obtain passport card for child?

I already got passport for my daughter will it still cost me $35 to get the card? If I loose my child passport, can you obtain passport book based on her passport card? While renewing the passport for child what documents do we need?

Can some one please say what docs we need to send with N600?
 
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If you had applied for passport book and card, the card would have costed you $10 more. Since you have to apply again in person (applicant is under 16 years) you will have to pay the $25 execution fee + $10 for card=$35.

If child's passport needs renewal you only need to submit childs existing passport/passport card. No other documentation is required.
 
Huracan said:
I wouldn't say a complete waste of time and money. It's just another proof of citizenship and it creates a record of your child citizenship with USCIS that might come handy when your kid gets picked up close the the US border and deported for not having proof of citizenship on her or him ;) I agree that nowadays with the passport card/passport book you can use one of them to obtain the other in case one is lost. One could keep the passport card in a safety box and that should be pretty safe.

I am not sure whether the passport agency would issue a passport if the Green Card document expires. Perhaps they do. I don't know.

Bottom line, from a practical point of view nkm-oct23 is right, in particular with the passport book/passport card backing up each other in case of loss. However, I think the certificate of citizenship has some other advantages. No expiry date. Record of citizenship at USCIS.
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Well, USCIS is not granting citizenship to your child, the child is automatically a citizen once certain conditions are met. USCIS website clearly suggests that obtaining a US passport is an alternative to N-600.

Native born americans or children born overseas to american citizens have no record of their citizenship with USCIS. Moreover there is no requirement that one carried a proof of citizenship all the time.

Green card whether expired or unexpired can be used to obtain passport along with proof that the parent naturalized before the child turned 18 and the child was a LPR at the time of parent's naturalization.
 
I don't remember about the forms off the top of my head, so I went ahead and looked at the N600 instructions. If USCIS already has some of these forms you don't need to resubmit them. However it might delay the process.
Birth certificate of child, marriage certificate or divorce papers is applicable, school records of child or any other proof of residence in the US for the child, copy of green card of child, copy of naturalization certificate of parent/s, three passport photos of child.

Anyway, the instructions document contains much more details:

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/N-600instr.pdf
 
nkm-oct23 said:
Well, USCIS is not granting citizenship to your child, the child is automatically a citizen once certain conditions are met. USCIS website clearly suggests that obtaining a US passport is an alternative to N-600.

Native born americans or children born overseas to american citizens have no record of their citizenship with USCIS. Moreover there is no requirement that one carried a proof of citizenship all the time.

Green card whether expired or unexpired can be used to obtain passport along with proof that the parent naturalized before the child turned 18 and the child was a LPR at the time of parent's naturalization.
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I apologize if something I wrote made it sound like USCIS grants citizenship through the N600 application. I agree, it doesn't, I have that concept pretty clear and I am shocked if I have written something that puts this in doubt. Yes, I know the citizenship is granted automatically by operation of law, and that the applicable law is the child citizenship act of 2000. But this is not the point. The point is that for USCIS records your child is still a permanent resident. I don't, and I haven't in previous replies, disagree with you that N600 is a non-mandatory process. What I disagree with your first post is in that you say "it is a complete waste of time and money" and I see that it might have some benefits. I think even children born abroad to US citizens don't have to deal with USCIS but they need certificates of birth abroad for many occasions. I don't know of any case currenty where only a certificate of citizenship is valid, but as I said, this helps change the status of your child inside the USCIS/ICE machinery from resident to citizen and it gives you non-expiry proof of citizenship.
 
I would still consider N-600 for a child to be a complete waste of money. I offer the following reasons:

1) Certificate of citizenship costs $460+.

2) It takes several months or more.

3) It is not recognized as an acceptable document to prove US citizenship for employment verification (I-9)

4) You can no longer use it as a travel document for travel outside of US.

A passport card is better because:

1) It only costs $10 or $35 with $20 for subsequent renewals. Each renewal is valid for 10 years.

2) It takes only 1-4 weeks and a visit to a post office.

3) Passport card is acceptable for I-9.

4) You can use it as a travel document for travel outside of US (although only by land/sea)

Moreover USCIS does not require you to have a certificate of citizenship (they themselves suggest to get a certificate of citizenship OR a US passport for a child claiming citizenship from naturalized parents)
 
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passpoort renewal & cards

What are the requirements for renewing the passport for our child, What if we misplace our Citizenship Cert? How long passport cards are valid?
 
samsung2 said:
What are the requirements for renewing the passport for our child, What if we misplace our Citizenship Cert? How long passport cards are valid?
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For renewing passport only old passport is required.
If you lose any citizenship cert before you get passport you are in trouble; it costs money and time to get a replacement.
PP cards have same validity as passports, i.e. 5 years for minors and 10 years for adults.
 
nkm-oct23 said:
I would still consider N-600 for a child to be a complete waste of money. I offer the following reasons:

1) Certificate of citizenship costs $460+.

2) It takes several months or more.

3) It is not recognized as an acceptable document to prove US citizenship for employment verification (I-9)

4) You can no longer use it as a travel document for travel outside of US.

A passport card is better because:

1) It only costs $10 or $35 with $20 for subsequent renewals. Each renewal is valid for 10 years.

2) It takes only 1-4 weeks and a visit to a post office.

3) Passport card is acceptable for I-9.

4) You can use it as a travel document for travel outside of US (although only by land/sea)

Moreover USCIS does not require you to have a certificate of citizenship (they themselves suggest to get a certificate of citizenship OR a US passport for a child claiming citizenship from naturalized parents)
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All factually correct, however, you still decide to ignore that through N600 USCIS becomes aware of your child citizenship and this could be beneficial in certain cases when some other agency queries USCIS about the status of your child. I don't disagree with your points, and each one can decide if this point is worth $460.
 
samsung2 said:
What are the requirements for renewing the passport for our child, What if we misplace our Citizenship Cert? How long passport cards are valid?
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If you misplace your certificate of naturalization or certificate of citizenship and you need to get another you would need to apply with form N-565.

Passport book or Passport card can be used to renew any of the other passports. This means if you lose your passport book you can use your passport card to replace it.

For children passports both parents have to show up with the child at the passport acceptance place (usually the post office). I think there are ways to avoid the presence of one of the parents but that is more involved, more details in the passport form.
 
Thanks for your response

nkm-oct23 said:
For renewing passport only old passport is required.
If you lose any citizenship cert before you get passport you are in trouble; it costs money and time to get a replacement.
PP cards have same validity as passports, i.e. 5 years for minors and 10 years for adults.
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Thanks for your response
 
Unless you apply for N600 for your child in which case they might ask you to send them the GC just keep it for now, it might be needed to apply for your child passport in case the passport is lost.
 
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